To innovate is not to reform. Edmund Burke More Quotes by Edmund Burke More Quotes From Edmund Burke We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. Edmund Burke change inspirational friendship Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke virtue patience inspirational No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke success motivational inspirational The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Edmund Burke making-a-difference charity littles If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke greatest-wealth money inspirational All men have equal rights, but not to equal things. Edmund Burke equality rights men Evil prevails when good men fail to act. Edmund Burke good-man evil men True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. Edmund Burke fabric foundation religion What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. Edmund Burke unity god men Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. Edmund Burke moral liberty men Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. Edmund Burke political long people People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. Edmund Burke taken relationship people This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature. Edmund Burke taken rights men The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. Edmund Burke rich wealth world He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Edmund Burke education inspirational life There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world. Edmund Burke moral mean world In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. Edmund Burke errors wisdom past The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. Edmund Burke revolution opinion important Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage. Edmund Burke gang infamous mind Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. Edmund Burke encouraging encouragement mind
